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Author :: Andrea Patten  |
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| Article Title :: Failure or Future? It's Up To YOU! |
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| We all want to comfort our children after they suffer any kind of failure or disappointment. It's only natural. But the best parents I've met have resisted the urge to "make it all better."Instead, they ask a simple question: "What happened?"The question is asked kindly and respectfully, but the intention is clear: to help the child understand why she didn't reach her goal. Where did she go wrong? Was she unprepared? Did she not work hard enough? Or is her talent simply in another area?This kind of questioning may seem rather sophisticated for a young child, but will teach an important lesson: failure can be viewed as a springboard to improvement, not as a dead-end or (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Alli Ross |
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| Article Title :: What Julia Roberts has to Say about Motherhood |
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| Julia Roberts recently gave birth to twins: Hazel and Phinnaeus. At 37, America’s Pretty Woman couldn’t be happier in her new role of motherhood.The twins were delivered at a hospital in Southern California. Since the twin’s birth Julia has done voice-over work for the remake of E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web”. She is also set to work on a film for children called “Ant Bully”.Roberts has often told reporters that she’d like nine children. She claimed that pregnancy was a breeze and she certainly hasn’t lost her trademark smile. Julia seems to enjoy all of life’s experiences. Motherhood simply brought highlights.Roberts says she only has one comp (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Robyn Mueller |
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| Article Title :: After the Driving School |
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| If you visit search engines you can find several resources to assist you on this subject. Try searching on the phrase “parents with teen drivers”. Alternatively we have tried to make this easy for you if you visit our news page on this very topic.A few resources on the web for parents are:Parent-Teen ContractYou might also consider using a driving safety contract between you and your teen. This is an agreement that your child signs, in which he agrees to be a safe driver by following all restrictions you have imposed or risk losing his driving privileges. An example of this can be found at:
http://www.ipromiseprogram.com/Talk It OutWork with your tee (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Robyn Mueller |
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| Article Title :: Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) for Teen Drivers |
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| Drivers 16 years of age have little driving experience, putting them at high risk for traffic accidents. A series of five research papers published in a September 2002 supplement of Injury Prevention addresses reducing this risk. The papers introduce and make a case for graduated driver licensing (GDL), the system of laws and practices that gradually introduce young drivers into the driving population.Graduated Driver License programs can be found in 31 states around the country. The GDL program permits young drivers to safely gain driving experience before obtaining full driving privileges and are generally targeted towards 14 – 17 year old teen drivers.Most states requ (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: Clean Kid Syndrome - Does Your Child Suffer from it? |
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| The learning and development of Australian kids is under threat because they’re not playing outdoors, engaging in constructive, creative play.A nationwide Newspoll survey revealed that the average kid is spending at most, just 10 percent of their free time playing outdoors at home. Alarmingly one in 20 parents (5%) admits when their kids are at home they NEVER play outdoors. Instead the majority of Australian kids are spending far more time indoors, watching television, playing computer games or playing with toys.Years of research shows that constructive play is an essential part of fostering inquisitive and strong minds. Playing outdoors is therefore key to normal develop (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: Are Parents Trying Too Hard? |
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| One of the implications of the current trend toward smaller families is that we now have a generation of parents who are willing to go to enormous lengths to give their children a good start in life.In the rush to ensure that children have a maximum amount of experiences many parents ferry children from one lesson to another after school and on weekends. This busyness of life takes its toll on children and on families as homes are required to run like clockwork and meals are thrown down between lessons. “To hell with shared mealtime I have to pick up little Jessica from tennis lessons and drop her off at ballet classes” is the mantra of many modern parents.The self-impro (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: Bedtime and Sleep Habits |
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| Bedtime and children’s sleep habits can cause nightmares - for parents, that is! Often at the end of a long day all you want is a little peace and time for yourself. After all, you have probably devoted the entire to the service of children in some form.Whether it is putting bread on the table or being gainfully employed in an unpaid position as housekeeper and cook, you deserve a break.Come on, kids, be reasonable!But children do not always see bed-time from a parent’s perspective. They often dispute calls for bed and complain loudly that it is too early.None of the other kids at school go to bed at 8 o’clock, Mum. “It’s not fair.” is the sort of l (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: Let's Not Hurry Children Through Childhood |
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| Have you ever experienced one of those days when you wanted to return to the carefree days of childhood when your biggest worry was how you could con your parents into staying up a little longer at night. Have you ever thought that you would like to be a child once more when the biggest decision for the day was choosing which topping put on your ice cream?While this worry-free existence maybe idealised, there is little doubt that most parents want to capture this carefree, happy feeling for their children.But many children feel the same stress that adults feel. In a culture that values success they can easily be pressured to grow up to quickly. It appears that the pressure f (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: Parenting: Discipline |
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| Discipline is a necessary part of parenting yet it makes most parents feel uncomfortable. Some of those old disciplinary phrases such as ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’, ‘teach them a lesson’ or ‘set children straight’ are enough to send shivers up the spine of any reasonable-minded parent.Discipline for the majority of the twentieth century was adult-centred and relied heavily on punishment as a way of keeping children on the right track. Discipline was based on the principle of severity and terms such as punishment, obedience and compliance were commonly used.Corporal punishment was used in schools and smacking and variations of that theme were the general (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: Gifted Children - Getting the Balance Right |
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| One of the challenges for parents with a gifted child is to encourage them to develop a range of interest outside the academic sphere that not only rounds them out but stops them from being isolated from their peers
Gifted children are a diverse group of kids who are talented in specific areas such as mathematics, language, sport or music. Some gifted kids are mutli-talented excelling in a variety of areas.Gifted children tend to be passionate and single-minded about their interests focusing their energy on the topics that absorb them, often to the exclusion of other activities.Just as all children need to have a balanced diet to remain in good health they need a balance bet (read full article) |
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